Luna will not replace chief deputy

The State Department of Education will not replace chief deputy superintendent Roger Quarles, and will instead parcel out his responsibilities over the next 11 months.

And that means oversight of the Schoolnet instructional management system will fall to several Education Department staffers: program manager Alex Macdonald; chief information officer Joyce Popp; and chief of staff Luci Willits.

Quarles played an integral role in working with school district officials and Pearson Education Inc., the state’s vendor on the Schoolnet project, in laying out a roadmap for the third year of the pilot project.

“Now that that is in place, we have a clear path forward for improving our work with pilots,” Education Department spokeswoman Melissa McGrath said this week.

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There isn’t really any other way to look at it. Quarles wasn’t on the job for long. And now he quits and the job isn’t replaced. It was a waste of money – the guy must have done little for his paycheck. I don’t think there is another way to spin it.